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30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online

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How to recognize a bad person? No, not a caricatured villain from comics, but simply a person who at first glance looks completely harmless, but if you look closely, various aspects begin to appear, thickening the shadows on a previously light and, perhaps, shining image.

In fact, the ability to recognize not-that-nice people is very useful in life for almost any of us, so this selection of 'red flags', carefully compiled and based on a recent poll in the AskReddit community, might be really wholesome. At least, if you don't see yourself in all these various clues...

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#1

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Abusing animals

SJP_06 , Jennifer C. Report

Final score:

360points

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#2

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People who treat servers, Uber drivers, convenience store clerks ect disrespectfully.

Character is how you treat the people that you’ll never see again.

thebaylorweedinhaler , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

278points

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#3

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Making your children upset in order to record it and post it for internet points.

ManMan1101 , Oleksandr Pidvalnyi Report

Final score:

235points

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In fact, of course, the negative traits listed in this selection can be found in almost any of us. After all, there are no perfectly good and sinless people and we have all done some bad deeds at some point. And here, probably, the main difference between a really bad person and a good one comes into play.

A good person, having done something icky, realizes it, gets upset - and tries to learn a life lesson from this experience, not to do it again. The bad one probably won't refrain from repeating it - even if it obviously hurts and troubles others.

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#4

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Being a habitual litterer.

SuvenPan , Stephan Ridgway Report

Final score:

221points

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#5

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online In my opinion cheating on your significant other its one of the highest levels of betrayal a person can do to another.

AliveViolent , itsmeseher Report

Final score:

208points

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#6

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Believing mental disorders don't exist.

FlahtheWhip , Pixabay Report

Final score:

180points

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By the way, the ideas expressed in this selection also clearly show the evolution of the image of a villain in popular culture - the most dangerous are not loud-voiced scoundrels and poseurs like Thanos or Lord Voldemort, but, on the contrary, sometimes charming and quite charismatic personalities, inside which, however, pitch darkness reigns. Think, for example, Hannibal Lecter, Kaiser Soze or Nurse Ratched. The latter generally inspires more horror just because she's absolutely sure that she is right, and even revels in her own power within certain limits. And that makes her even more dangerous and disgusting.

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#7

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not having empathy, common courtesy, or respect for people in worse situations than yourself. For example treating homeless people poorly and “lesser” than you, or treating people in low paying service jobs poorly because you feel that they’re beneath you somehow.

EasyMode556 , fabio.tsu Report

Final score:

179points

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#8

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Minimizing other peoples experiences or pain because it doesn't match with your experiences

Shepard_of_fire_124 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

154points

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#9

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not cleaning up your dog's s**t from the street

HandsomeRob74 , Matheus Bertelli Report

Final score:

149points

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"Unfortunately, most [toxic people] don't come with warning labels the way toxic chemicals do. Many of them seem very likable at first. After all, most toxic people are good manipulators, so getting you to like them is part of their toolkit", Minda Zetlin, a contributor for Inc, writes in her column. "While there's no foolproof method to tell right away if a new friend or colleague will be a drag on your energy, mood, or productivity, there are some early warning signs many toxic people display." So most importantly - always take information critically because what you can perceive as a red flag can always turn out to be an instant clouding of a true good person. Just give people a chance...

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#10

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Parking in the handicapped spot and not being handicapped or have a sticker/placard. Or parking in a spot crooked where the next car can’t park.

anon , Andy Johnson Report

Final score:

138points

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#11

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Refusing to wear headphones

LemonzestSpagett , JÉSHOOTS Report

Final score:

131points

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#12

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Treating people who are just doing their jobs as automatically inferior.

Antipotheosis , RF._.studio Report

Final score:

128points

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Be that as it may, the list that is presented here looks quite complete, and is able to cure almost any person from excessive naivety. So now please feel free to scroll it to the very end, and if you have your own marker for identifying terrible persons, then write it down in the comments section. Perhaps your experience will also be wholesome to someone. After all, helping others is just the hallmark of good people, isn't it?

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#13

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Stealing money meant for charities.

MaddenRob , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

123points

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#14

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Don’t take good care of their children

Quiet-Rip-6063 , Tatiana Syrikova Report

Final score:

119points

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#15

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People who cut you off after 2 - 5 seconds every time you try to say something!

zipzap21 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

118points

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#16

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online if you're a boss, and you know for certain your place is about to close up, and you don't tell your crew so they can start looking for a new paycheck? absolute f*****g scum.

Final score:

112points

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#17

People who enjoy other people hurting.

anhedistic Report

Final score:

109points

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#18

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not accepting mistakes as mistakes. Just say I f****d up.

TimeToCash , Alex Green Report

Final score:

98points

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#19

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online When someone complains about everyone else behind their backs

Lavadragon10 , Alex Green Report

Final score:

97points

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#20

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online When someone literally tells you they are a good person, run for the hill.

Winter-Market-2 , Sebastian Arie Voortman Report

Final score:

97points

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#21

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

Yeah, I hate both.

Clever_Mercury , Sebastian Arie Voortman Report

Final score:

95points

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#22

Someone who has spent thousands of dollars on tattoos while their children are dressed in clothes that are falling apart or who look exhausted and hungry.

EmmelineTx Report

Final score:

95points

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#23

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online They don’t put the goddamn cart back at the grocery store

omg_88 , Mizzu Cho Report

Final score:

94points

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#24

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Making a huge screaming scene in a restaurant .

Tink2013 , Vincent M.A. Janssen Report

Final score:

91points

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#25

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Not saying it's awesome when a kid shows you a drawing they made

ipakookapi , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

89points

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#26

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online People that care more about being right than anything else. People that lie to seem better than other people.

InfinityES , Vera Arsic Report

Final score:

84points

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#27

bullying others. whether you see it as a joke or not, you’re still annoying someone else and thats wrong so get the f**k away from my table and stay atleast 6 ft away from me, simon.

Littlebickmickey Report

Final score:

78points

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#28

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Alphabroism- just made that up but You know it when you see it

Maleficent-Winter187 , Budgeron Bach Report

Final score:

74points

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#29

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Taking advantage of others or mistreating others when they can get away with it.

Things like letting their roommates do all their dishes and pay all the bills. Getting their partner to do the majority of housework and slinking out of helping. Acting like they care about something only when someone is witnessing them. Being kind only when others are watching. Being cruel when others are not watching. "Forgetting" things that don't fit their narrative about who they are.

It is so manipulative to cultivate a persona that is totally false and to act the opposite when it is advantageous. So many people use this strategy to get away with terrible behaviour and once you see their true colours it immediately screams they are terrible at their core.

omnombooks , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

73points

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#30

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online "I'm just really honest"

wolfanyd , George Milton Report

Final score:

72points

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#31

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online When the default coping mechanism is to manipulate or abuse other people

snowy_diao , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

23points

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#32

Sycophants who will brown nose and hover around higher-ups all the time when they visit, even when in real life they do really s****y work.

Also people who make jokes at your expense to impress people who you are introducing them to, to appear as the better person.

Hate both these kinds.

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Final score:

20points

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#33

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online They don't rewind before returning their rented videotapes

Edward_the_Dog , cottonbro studio Report

Final score:

12points

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#34

30 Warning Signs That Indicate Someone Is A Terrible Person, As Shared By Folks Online Me, after the first sleeve of Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, knowing that it won't stop there. Because it never stops there.

pretendvacation570 , Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup Report

Final score:

10points

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#35

Stealing a perfect sandwich

KnightOfUltarius Report

Final score:

6points

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What do you think ?

Boris Long-Johnson 1 year ago

People who wear their religion on the sleeve/shove it down other people’s throats. Live and let live ffs!

22points

Brainmas 1 year ago

People who aren't nice to kids. You don't have to like them, but they shouldn't know that you don't.

10points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

People who swerve around a stopped car at a crosswalk to speed through without watching for pedestrians. People who don't stop for pedestrians at crosswalks.

9points

Hayhaypaula 1 year ago

And people who choose to go to the heat of the empty lane to get ahead of many others, instead of waiting their turn to merge.

2points

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Boris Long-Johnson 1 year ago

People who wear their religion on the sleeve/shove it down other people’s throats. Live and let live ffs!

22points

Brainmas 1 year ago

People who aren't nice to kids. You don't have to like them, but they shouldn't know that you don't.

10points

StrangeOne 1 year ago

People who swerve around a stopped car at a crosswalk to speed through without watching for pedestrians. People who don't stop for pedestrians at crosswalks.

9points

Hayhaypaula 1 year ago

And people who choose to go to the heat of the empty lane to get ahead of many others, instead of waiting their turn to merge.

2points

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